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    50 Crucial Questions: An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood
    50 Crucial Questions: An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood
    50 Crucial Questions: An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood
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    50 Crucial Questions: An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood

    By John Piper and Wayne Grudem

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    The roles of men and women are immensely contested in both society and the church today. Christians are looking for answers from the Bible regarding how God intends for men and women to relate to one another. In this concise and accessible resource, well-known authors and Bible teachers John Piper and Wayne Grudem respond to fifty crucial questions often asked in relation to biblical manhood and womanhood. Answering objections raised against the view that God created men and women equal in value but distinct in role, Piper and Grudem winsomely present a biblical vision of gender roles that is life-giving and fulfilling for both men and women.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateApr 14, 2016
    ISBN9781433551840
    50 Crucial Questions: An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood
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    John Piper

     John Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don’t Waste Your Life; and Providence. 

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    • 4/5
      While this is a smaller version of Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism Paperback by John Piper & Wayne Grudem (and of only chapter 2), this book packs a lot of good material in 100 pages.

      You could call this an overview of findings book but this is more than a grifting attempt to resell a book; this is a way to offer valuable insight into normal and legitimate questions still being asked about the topic. Where the book adds the best value is giving you a great starting point into looking deeper into the questions you've seen friends and, sadly, churches bring up on a number of topics. There are some really hard-hitting questions in this book.

      For example (questions edited for space):
      5) What do you mean by "submission"? & 9) Could this lead to abuse?
      16) Aren't the arguments against women pastors the same made for defending slavery?
      25) Why prohibit women speaking while allowing them to prophecy
      31) Is there selective literalism when "braided hair" and "head coverings" are culturally conditional?

      The answers to the questions are enough to not be ambiguise and you'd see this type of content on a webpage to help people get answers to the question while not going into all the detail. They do not shirk away from some of the best questions against their position of compatibalism. Again, the work is filled out more in the other book but I think this is a great tool that someone that wants help in answering the questions for themselves and researching them and maybe even disagreeing with them or strengthening them would get a great benefit from.

      Final Grade - A-

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    From the beginning we have insisted at the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood that the complementarian position is firmly rooted in the authority and sufficiency of Scripture. Here you will find answers to key questions in a concise format from two of the evangelical community’s finest minds. May God use this book to encourage heartfelt obedience to his good and wise design.

    Randy Stinson, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Administration, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

    "To borrow a phrase from C. S. Lewis, there’s a kind of ‘Deep Magic’ about the way God created man and woman—an ancient wonder that few of us postmoderns appreciate. Through a pragmatic arrangement of 50 Crucial Questions, Piper and Grudem bring out passage after passage of Scripture to awaken our minds and hearts to the wonder of what our Creator has done. This concise treatment of the major questions surrounding our roles in the church and home will catapult readers straight into God’s Word to see what is really there."

    Gloria Furman, pastor’s wife, Redeemer Church of Dubai; author, The Pastor’s Wife and Missional Motherhood

    The core content of this book was tremendously needed and helpful when it was first published almost a quarter century ago. In our current generation, where there is breathtaking confusion and distortion regarding gender and marriage, it is needed more than ever. There is a desperate need for leaders of the evangelical church to speak with a wise, clear, and uncompromising biblical clarity. Piper and Grudem provide that clear voice, and I pray their answers will be heard and practiced so that God’s glory will be more powerfully displayed through his grand design for men and women.

    Erik Thoennes, Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies, Chair, Biblical and Theological Studies Theology Department, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University; Pastor, Grace Evangelical Free Church, La Mirada, California

    50 Crucial Questions

    50 Crucial Questions

    An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood

    John Piper and Wayne Grudem

    50 Crucial Questions: An Overview of Central Concerns about Manhood and Womanhood

    Copyright © 2016 by The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

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    First published on its own as 50 Crucial Questions about Manhood and Womanhood, copyright © 1992 by The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Published earlier as An Overview of Central Concerns: Questions and Answers, chapter 2 in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism, edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem (Crossway), copyright © 1991, 2006 by The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.

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    Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-4335-5181-9

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    Names: Piper, John, 1946– | Grudem, Wayne A.

    Title: 50 crucial questions : an overview of central concerns about manhood and womanhood / John Piper and Wayne Grudem.

    Other titles: Fifty crucial questions

    Description: Wheaton, Illinois : Crossway, 2016. | First published as ‘An Overview of Central Concerns: Questions and Answers,’ chapter 2 in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism, edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem (Crossway), copyright © 1991, 2006 by The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Identifiers: LCCN 2015018527 (print) | LCCN 2016004234 (ebook) | ISBN 9781433551819 (tp) | ISBN 9781433551826 (pdf) | ISBN 9781433551833 (mobi) | ISBN 9781433551840 (epub)

    Subjects: LCSH: Sex role—Religious aspects—Christianity—Miscellanea.

    Classification: LCC BT708 .P495 2016 (print) | LCC BT708 (ebook) | DDC 233/.5081—dc23

    LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015018527

    Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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    Contents

    Preface

    Introduction: Complementarity

    50 Crucial Questions

    1  Why do you regard the issue of male and female roles as so important?

    2  What do you mean by unbiblical female leadership in the church (in question 1)?

    3  Where in the Bible do you get the idea that only men should be the pastors and elders of the church?

    4  What about marriage? What do you mean by marriage patterns that do not portray the relationship between Christ and the church (in question 1)?

    5  What do you mean by submission (in question 4)?

    6  What do you mean when you call the husband head (in question 5)?

    7  Where in the Bible do you get the idea that husbands should be the leaders in their homes?

    8  When you say that a wife should not follow her husband into sin (question 5), what’s left of headship? Who is to say what act of his leadership is sinful enough to justify her refusal to follow?

    9  Don’t you think that stressing headship and submission gives impetus to the epidemic of wife abuse?

    10  But don’t you believe in mutual submission, which Paul seems to teach in Ephesians 5:21 (submitting to one another)?

    11  If head means source in Ephesians 5:23 (the husband is the head of the wife), as some scholars say it does, wouldn’t that change your whole way of seeing this passage and eliminate the idea of the husband’s leadership in the home?

    12  Isn’t your stress on leadership in the church and headship in the home contrary to the emphasis of Christ in Luke 22:26, Let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves?

    13  In questions 2 and 6, you said that the calling of the man is to bear primary responsibility for leadership in the church and the home. What do you mean by primary?

    14  If the husband is to treat his wife as Christ does the church, does that mean he should govern all the details of her life and that she should clear all her actions with him?

    15  Don’t you think that these texts are examples of temporary compromise with the patriarchal status quo, while the main thrust of Scripture is toward the leveling of gender-based role differences?

    16  Aren’t the arguments made to defend the exclusion of women from the pastorate today parallel to the arguments Christians made to defend slavery in the nineteenth century?

    17  Since the New Testament teaching on the submission of wives in marriage is found in the part of Scripture known as the household codes (Haustafeln), which were taken over in part from first-century culture, shouldn’t we recognize that what Scripture is teaching us is not to offend against current culture but to fit in with it up to a point and thus be willing to change our

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